All My Children Opening Sequence - 1970

AMC Opening Sequence from a 1970 episode. This is the original opening. Notice the differences with the following one (position of the hand, missing flowers on first page, picture of Rosemary Prinz). Although AMC was always taped in color, this sequence is B&W. This is a kinescope recording, not the original. Two possible explanations: 1) A fire destroyed the warehouse where all episodes pre-1976 were stored; 2) ABC did not keep episodes prior to 1977 and when AMC went to an hour in 1977, it is said that Agnes Nixon agreed to the deal on the condition that ABC would keep all AMC episodes from that date on...

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• AMC
• opening
• sequence
• 1970
• ABC
• soap
• prinz

[ph22xx]

was the frist episode of AMC in 1970 black n white?

[amcfanatic]

Actually it was always shot and broadcast in color, but the kinescope that was used to film the video directly from the TV screen was in black and white.

[VaultMasterDBT]

"The '80s intro", which was essentially the '70s intro! :)

[Squirrelseven7]

@ph22xx Who will be the hero to the residents of port charles,llanview and pinevalley and all the fans that love them and miss them so much. ABC went on a killing spree but like David Hayword on AMC another network can bring the dead back to life. Who will it be? Join in the fight to save our shows facebook.com/groups/2007098533­03867/

[gookinboots]

aww...i miss amc

[adelgado75]

I can't believe that the era of soap operas is dimming fast. I would hope they played this theme one last time on ABC.

[Sheri451]

When I was little I thought All My Children was about someones children. I sure was dissapointed to see it was a boring soap opera. My Mom loved it though, she called this and all the others she watched "My stories."

[east215]

@TheDangergirl35 so true

[ensemblist]

@entertainme3000 to Erica) . Though Erica isn't a very substantive character and I have grown tired of trite machinations, historically, she is one of the best fictional characters of all time! I often wondered what Erica would be if she had always only been written and shaped by Agnes, rather than the myriad writers over the years...

Lastly, how can you LOVE Greenlee and not at least acknowledge and appreciate that Greenlee and Erica are the same person? Think about it...

Thanks so much! :-)

[ensemblist]

@entertainme3000 from and in various men and always her father. Erica then only put on the front of arrogance and confidence as a defense mechanism and to get what she wanted from life. Erica now really is self possessed and doesn't need validation from anyone- but her kids. Erica is probably the most NATURALLY evolved character (to my knowledge) in all tv history because it took about 30 years to get her there. (only rivaled by Rachel Frame Cory of Another World (who was Agnes Nixon's precursor

[ensemblist]

@entertainme3000 wholly believe that. I couldn't because I really didn't know pre-Bianca Erica. But once I started reading and seeing her scenes with past husbands and Mona and the way she was always trying to prove herself and her worth, I saw the change. The Erica we have now is self-assured and confident, due to realizing the world doesn't revolve around her, having accomplished the things she wanted to in her life, and attaining-from her daughters-the unconditional love she always sought 

[ensemblist]

@entertainme3000 I'm sorry to disagree, but I must. I started watching AMC faithfully in about 93. I thought I knew Erica. But once I started watching a LOT of old episodes and "marathons" (months of just erica scenes on youtube) from the 70s and 80s, you can definitely tell Erica is not the same. She's still over the top, but she is much more mellow and far less avarice and aspirational as a character than she was. I used to hear people say and write that Bianca' birth changed Erica...I didn't

[Bansheeeyes78]

Those were the days of AMC! Miss them.